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34 USC § 12401 - Grant program 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t34/s12401"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "34 USC § 12401 - Grant program"
title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
section_number: "12401"
section_name: "Grant program"
chapter_number: 121
chapter_name: "VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN"
part_number: "F"
part_name: "National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40602, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1951; Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title I, § 1106(b), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1497.)"
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# § 12401. Grant program

**(a)** **In general** The Attorney General is authorized to provide grants to States and units of local government to improve and implement processes for entering data regarding stalking and domestic violence into local, State, and national crime information databases.

**(b)** **Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State or unit of local government shall certify that it has or intends to establish a program that enters into the National Crime Information Center records of—

**(1)** warrants for the arrest of persons violating protection orders intended to protect victims from stalking or domestic violence;

**1** arrests or convictions of persons violating protection [^1] or domestic violence; and

So in original. Probably should be followed by “orders intended to protect victims from stalking”.

**(3)** protection orders for the protection of persons from stalking or domestic violence.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40602, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1951; Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title I, § 1106(b), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1497.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2000—Subsec. (a).  inserted “and implement” after “improve”.